No. 21-7709
IFP
Tags: cruel-and-unusual-punishment direct-appeal ineffective-assistance-of-counsel res-judicata sentencing sentencing-error statutory-authority statutory-authorization
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment
DueProcess Punishment
Latest Conference:
2022-09-28
Question Presented (from Petition)
"NATURAL LIFE"
THAT DOES
A SENTENCE
OF
NOT
EXIST
IS
NOT
AUTHOR IZED
BY
AND
STATUTE,
WHICH
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL
PUNI SHMENT
CONSTITUTES
BECAUSE
WAS
ASSIGNED AS ERROR
ON
IT
NOT
INITIAL
DIRECT
TO INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF APPOINTED
APPEAL DUE
APPELLATE COUNSEL?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether res judicata may bar correction of a sentence of 'natural life' that does not exist and is not authorized by statute, which constitutes cruel and unusual punishment because it was not assigned as error on initial direct appeal due to ineffective assistance of appointed appellate counsel?
Docket Entries
2022-10-03
Petition DENIED.
2022-06-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
2022-05-31
Brief of respondent Ohio in opposition filed.
2022-04-19
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 31, 2022)
Attorneys
David C. Morris
David C. Morris — Petitioner
State of Ohio
Jacquenette Susanne Corgan — Summit County Prosecutor's Office, Respondent